Transforming the film business into a thriving film industry
The future development of the film industry in
Sri Lanka depends entirely on the production of movies that can
shatter box office records and make more than 150 percent profit.
The hackneyed, outdated policy of giving loans to produce trashy
Sinhala films will never bring any profitability to NFC. With the
thundering success of ‘Aba’ the Sinhala film audience will not be
the same again,
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The Morning Inspection
Amid the carnage there will always be those who keep life alive
Death and loss are lamented collectively as well
as personally. We moved on as a collective but there’s no way to say
that a forgetting or dealt-and-done-with skin has grown over the
scars of that tragedy. I tell myself that a couple of millennia
worth of engagement with the Buddhist notion of equanimity and a
corresponding understanding of the doctrine of impermanence might
have helped,
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Socio-economic scene
Urban development in rural areas
A key part of the Mahinda Chinthana was the
revival of the village, eliminating inequality with new technology
and new ideas. It aimed at bridging the resource gap by bringing to
rural populations the facilities available to city-dwellers.
Measures were taken to provide roads, electricity, irrigation, water
supply and other community services, as well as developing
agriculture and small scale industries projects and improving
traditional industries in order to provide livelihoods,
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